U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers says he plans to "aggressively" look into the emerging scandal involving former Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus, including an ongoing FBI investigation that apparently bypassed congressional leaders in both the U.S. House and Senate.

Rogers, a Howell Republican, is chairman of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

That committee has oversight in whole or in part over all the agencies in the nation's intelligence community, including the CIA and FBI.

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Rogers issued a statement through his office Tuesday as Congress reconvened for the first time since weeks before the Nov. 6 election.

"As chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Rogers is conducting aggressive oversight of this matter this week," the statement said. "He fully intends to get to the bottom of the situation and will ask the tough questions and take the facts wherever they may lead."

Petraeus, a former military general, resigned last week as CIA director over an extramarital affair discovered during an FBI investigation.

Details relating to the investigation continue to emerge, involving the general who replaced Petraeus in Afghanistan when he retired from the military to take control of the CIA, and a second woman whose emails to each other uncovered Petraeus' affair.

Michael J. Morell, deputy director of the CIA, is the acting director and considered a possible replacement for Petraeus, as are some others in the administration of President Barack Obama.

Rogers' name has also surfaced in media accounts as a possible replacement to head up the CIA. Rogers, through his office, declined comment.

On paper, there are reasons Rogers' name would be bandied about as a candidate to run the CIA.

But many of the reasons that Rogers could be a candidate to run the CIA are perhaps the same reasons why he wouldn't be.

Rogers, 49, was just elected to his seventh term in Congress in a district representing Ingham and Livingston counties, and a big chunk of Oakland County.

He's a former FBI special agent and, in Congress, the intelligence committee he chairs also oversees the activities of all the nation's intelligence agencies, not just the CIA.

And, except for his very first election to Congress in 2000, which he won by the narrowest margin of 111 votes over Democrat Dianne Byrum, Rogers has easily won re-election since then.

Newly drawn congressional districts shifted more of the 8th Congressional District into parts of Oakland County that lean Republican, making it likely that Rogers will continue to serve in Congress for the rest of the decade, if he chooses.

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